Second Boston Marathon bombing suspect responding to questions

[Fawke Em]

(NBC NEWS) - Despite a serious throat wound preventing him from speaking, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect is beginning to respond to questions from investigators, federal officials tell NBC News.

Nearly 48 hours after he was taken into custody following an intense gun battle and manhunt, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was communicating with a special team of federal investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital.

He was responding to questions mostly in writing because of the throat wound, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The suspect remains in serious condition. The throat wound may be the result of a suicide attempt, investigators said.

http://www.weau.com/news/headlines/Second-Boston-Marathon-bombing-suspect-responding-to-questions-204028281.html

Hope this clarifies some earlier conversations on DU.

[Fawke Em]

1. Gee... I thought this would get more comments.

DUers were posting about Dzokhar Tsarnaev's condition earlier.

[Tx4obama]

2. News broke in LBN on the thread link below, so ....

... maybe that's why you didn't get a bunch of replies, I don't know

LBN thread comments here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014462021

[freshwest]

3. There was a lot of speculation as to how they would communicate with him, then LBNs were posted.

This got a lot of play in the afternoon. I guess the next best follow up would be to get some more details. One question they were posting to him was about the possible suicide attempt. But no answer on that yet. He might as well say whatever he wants, they have him on video. It may help out his defense, one way or the other.

[whathehell]

4. Good to hear and yes, I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more replies too.

Of course there ARE quite few who seem more interested in pronouncing the BPD's actions

as indicative of a "police state", and no, unfortunately, I'm not kidding.